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- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: -----and the number of terminations reduced. The relatively high cost of some contraception is acting as a financial barrier. I would really like to see, therefore, at the same time as we provide for termination of pregnancy services to be free that all maternity cover and all contraception should be free as well.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 172:In page 17, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“(3) The Minister shall lay before the Dáil, no more than 3 months after the passing of this Act, a report on the costs and implementation plan for the Health Service Executive to make available without charge medical, surgical and midwifery services, including provision of prescribed drugs, for...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I will address the process very briefly. To the Minister's credit, he has been very open to a substantial number of amendments to various Parts of the Bill. It is to members' credit that they withdrew most amendments. I know we want this Bill passed into law as soon as possible but it must be right. Based on the three days of debate we have just completed, a great deal of work remains to...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (13 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a clerk of works was appointed for the construction of a school (details supplied); if the clerk conducted inspections of the building; if those inspections included issues relating to fire safety and-or structural issues; if these issues were raised with the company contracted to build the school; if the company committed to addressing...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (13 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 451. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the fall in the number of staff nurses employed in the health services from April to September 2018 with 245 fewer employed over the course of those months. [47144/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional full-year expenditure needed in each of the next five years in order to maintain existing levels of health services. [47295/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional full-year expenditure needed in each of the next five years to meet demographic challenges. [47296/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister of State and the officials for their time today and for the statements made. I start with performance and accountability. In Ireland, we spend more on healthcare than almost any other country on earth. Budgets over the last number of years have been the highest in our history. Commensurately, the overruns have been the most extensive we have ever had. At the same...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry to cut across the Minister of State. My question is not about the solutions. It is whether, given what we both agree is happening, anyone has been fired.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister of State for his answer. The question referred to the best of the Minister of State's knowledge, in light of the fact that he is standing in for the Cabinet Minister here. To the best of his knowledge, has anyone been fired over the catastrophic failures we have seen right across the system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: In the past year, two years, three years, four years or five years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Whichever it is. Has anyone been fired due to the catastrophic failures and the pain and suffering felt across the system? It is a straight question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I ask that we do that afterwards. It is not to cut Mr. Connaghan off, it is just that we have very little time. I will be very happy to go into that later, but for now the answer to my question is "No". Is that fair? I do not want to put words in Mr. Connaghan's mouth, but the answer is "No". I ask the Minister of State to reflect on that at a political level. Given what is happening in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: It is for the failures we are seeing across the system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: To the best of the Minister of State's knowledge, has anyone been sanctioned in any way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Not for individual things. It is for the list of issues I have raised. Has anyone ever been sanctioned in any way for any of them, to the best of the Minister of State's knowledge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Are individuals sanctioned? I understand that the director general might point to a service and say, child and adolescent mental health service is in crisis and needs to be escalated or scoliosis needs to be escalated. My question is around personal accountability for what patients are dealing with. To the best of Mr. Connaghan's knowledge, has an individual been sanctioned in any way for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I am asking a different question. I appreciate Mr. Connaghan saying that he is looking at issues and trying to solve them, but I am asking whether an individual has been sanctioned for any of the failures I have listed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Maybe later, if we could. Chairman, do I have time for another question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Will I wait and come in later as it is a long question and will take more than 60 seconds? I am happy to stop and come back in.